Writers celebration ideas

A nonfiction writing workshop celebration in Kindergarten. Lots of ideas on how to celebrate the end of your nonfiction writing unit with your Kindergarten students.

Writing celebration - each reader shared their favorite line from a piece of writing that they read.

20 Uncommon Gifts For Writers

It is important that writers are given the opportunity to share their writing with others. That is the reason that a writer write! Publishing a piece just means that the author is given the chance to share their work. This can be done many ways. It doesn't (and shouldn't) always mean copying the story over

WOO HOO! We finished our first big writing project of the year - personal narratives and we had a great author celebration to celebrate all our great authors. Our writing units are 6 weeks long and I use plans I found, since we don't have a writing series to follow. To make it makes much more sense to have a devoted time everyday and really dig deep in the writing process especailly in 4th grade. We do big pieces and I get some shorter pieces where they do the writing process independently…

We recently sent off a class book to be published and it's back! I've been doing this for a few years now and I love how excited the kids get when they see their writing in an actual hard-cover book. So this year we celebrated with a book publishing party complete with punch, cookies, and the very first reading of our book. They even made toasts and clinked their plastic cups together. It was a hit with my little authors! I posted about the books last year too. Go here to read and get…

Lucy and I have a love-hate relationship. Lucy Caulkins that is. While I adore her theory and many of her ideas for structuring Writers Workshop, I often

It's the middle of your writing block and you sidle up to a student to have a writing conference. And it goes great. You feel like you made a difference with that kid. You feel like you accomplished something. But then you start doing the math... "Let's see, I just spent 8 minutes with this student, so at this rate it'll only take me... hmmm... 9,000 years to meet with everyone." It quickly gets overwhelming and you may start wondering, why even bother? Holding one-to-one writing conferences…

Celebration anchor chart --Writer's Workshop/ Marzano celebrating success

Hello friends! This is Cara Taylor from Creative Playground and I'm so happy to be learning and sharing with you today! Since we're at that half-way mark in the school year, many of us are at that point when our kiddos are nearing the end of publishing a writing piece. If you have or are planning to hold an Author Celebration or Publishing Party, make sure to keep reading to discover... We could go on for days talking about how to create a positive celebration experience, but I've narrowed…